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In the U.S., it’s illegal to edit genes in human embryos with the intention of creating a genetically engineered baby. But according to the Wall Street Journal, Bay Area startups are focused on just that. It wouldn’t be the first...

This is Ask An Expert, where every weekday at 9:20am, KCBS Radio is giving you direct access to top experts in various fields. Today: Gene-editing technology allows scientists to work with DNA in unprecedented ways, but there are larger scientific...

For months, a small company in San Francisco has been pursuing a secretive project: the birth of a genetically engineered...

Pronatalism is an old idea with roots in eugenics and nationalism, that is now fashionable among far-right influencers and policymakers. They talk...

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By Johana Bhuiyan, The Guardian | 09.23.2025

In March 2021, a 25-year-old US citizen was traveling through Chicago’s Midway airport when they were stopped by US border...

Donald Trump
By Julie Métraux, Mother Jones | 09.23.2025

Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore  is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

On Monday, President Donald Trump and Health and...

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By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 09.22.2025

On May 26, Tracy Atteberry checked in to the hospital at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. The...

gene editing graphic
By Charmayne Allison, ABC News | 09.21.2025

It has been seven years since Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui made an announcement that shocked the world's scientists.

He had...

a graphic showing certain genes acceptable and others not
By Auriane Polge, Science & Vie [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 09.19.2025

L’idée de pouvoir choisir certaines caractéristiques de son futur enfant a longtemps relevé de la science-fiction ou du débat éthique...

three babies with arrows designating some as higher up than others
By Margaux MacColl, The San Francisco Standard | 09.17.2025

Designer babies are coming soon to an IVF clinic near you. 

Nucleus Genomics, founded by Kian Sadeghi in 2020, when...

Gelsinger
By Tia Ghose, Live Science | 09.16.2025

Twenty-six years ago today, on Sept. 17, a teenager who had received an experimental gene therapy died. His death led...

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By Peter de Kruijff, ABC News | 09.16.2025

Do you wonder where your meat comes from? Maybe it is organic, wild harvested, or farmed.

Or perhaps it was...